Go Deeper at Regent College’s Summer School
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Without a doubt, our times at Regent College’s Summer Schools have been some of our best times as a married couple. We loved the diversity of course offerings, the multi-ethnic and multi-national faculty and student population, the afternoons in the park or on the beach, the deep conversations and the new friendships. Over a series of summers, we not only ticked away at graduate credits, we learned so much about God, ourselves, the world, the Scriptures, and our place at the intersection of them all.
My personal course highlights included: History of Science and Belief (now called, by the looks of it, Science and Christianity: Retrospect and Prospect, and being offered this summer), with Mark Noll and David Livingstone (absolutely transformed my view of how we engage science); The Triune God of Grace (or some such title), with James Houston and James Torrance; and The Spirit, the Kingdom, and the People of God, with N.T. Wright, Gordon Fee and David Hansen.
If you can make it to Vancouver this summer for a week or two, you will not regret diving into the Summer School program. If you wonder what sort of stuff the Regent summers are made of, here’s a sampling of some talks you can enjoy.
Sadly, I can’t make it to Summer School this year. But if I was, here’s a few courses I’d be interested in taking:
Spring Session:
1. Christopher Wright, God’s Word, God’s World, and God’s Mission: Reading the Whole Bible for Mission, May 9–13
2. James M. Houston, Living Elders in a Dying Church, May 23–27
3. Iain Provan, Living with Beastly Empires: The Book of Daniel, May 30–June 10
4. Loren Wilkinson and Mary Ruth Wilkinson, Gardening the City of God, June 5–17
Summer Session:
1. Alister McGrath, Truth, Beauty, and Imagination: Christian Apologetics in a Postmodern Context, June 27–July 1
2. Paul Williams and Paul Oslington, Christianity and the Political Economy of Capitalism, June 27–July 8
3. David Downing, The Fiction of C.S. Lewis, July 25–29
I highly recommend Regent College, period. From our ministry and theology to the very books we read with our children–dare I say, our very direction in life–has been shaped by the relationships built, the understandings gained, and the worldviews challenged at this great school. And it all started in the summers. Hope you can make it to Summer School this year.
